War Gothic in Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hantke, Steffen; Soltysik Monnet, Agnieszka

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary collection explores the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. From the American Civil War to the War on Terror, it examines how the Gothic has provided writers a toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and aspects of military experience including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with YA literature, gaming, comic books, literature, film, and visual art, it makes a timely contribution to Gothic Studies and War Literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317383239
• Artikelnr.: 44472527

Autorenporträt

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Steffen Hantke teaches in the American Culture Program at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.

Inhaltsangabe

Ghosts from the Battlefields: A Short Historical Introduction to the War
Gothic Steffen Hantke and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet Part 1: Cinema 1. "The
red thirst is on this nation": Vampiric Hauntings and the American Civil
War Leigh M. McLennon 2. Gustav Hasford's Gothic Poetics of Demystification
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 3. Haunted Jungles of Horror and Trauma: Elements
of the Gothic in Vietnamese and American War Fiction John Armstrong Part 2:
Visual Culture 4. Evil Things in Robes of Sorrow: Albert Pinkham Ryder's
War Gothic Jayme Yahr 5. Mastering Nature: War Gothic and the Monstrous
Anthropocene Hans Staats Part 3: Cinema 6. Troubled by Memories: The World
War II Veteran as a Gothic Figure in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our
Lives (1947) Steffen Hantke 7. Snow Nazis Must Die: Gothic Tropes and
Hollywood Genre-fication in Nazisploitation Ben Kooyman 8. "'Ah, you lose
you in there?': Gothic American Masculinities, Specters of Vietnam and
Becoming Monstrous in Southern Comfort Glen Donnar Part 4: Gaming 9. "You
Are Not In Control": Spec Ops: The Line and the Banality of War Steven
Holmes 10. Virtual War and the Nazi Zombie Gothic in Call of Duty Johan
Höglund 11. Beast of America: Revolution and Monstrosity in BioShock
Infinite Gwyneth Peaty Part 5: Young Adult Culture 12. Operation Horcrux:
Harry Potter's War Narrative in a Post-9/11 Context Kylee Hartman-Warren
13.The Gothicization of World War II as a Source of Cultural
Self-Reflection in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow
City Agata Zarzycka 14. Conquering the Frontier Gothic in Red Dawn Karen
Renner